English translation
4000. Narrated ‘Aishah رضي الله عنها, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ: Abū Hudhaifa, one of those who fought the battle of Badr with Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ, adopted Sālim as his son and married his niece, Hind bint Al-Walid bin ‘Utbā to him. Sālim was a freed slave of an Anṣārī woman. Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ also adopted Zaid as his son. In the Pre-Islāmic Period of Ignorance the custom was that, if one adopted a son, the people would call him by the name of the adopted father whom he would inherit as well, till Allāh تعالى revealed: "Call them (adopted sons) by (the names of) their fathers..." (V.33:5)
